WORLD OF RADIO 1213 (high) available from 1700 UT December 24: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2230 UT Dec. 28.

WORLD OF RADIO 1213 (low) available from 0040 UT December 24: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2230 UT Dec. 28. There are a few glitches, cause unknown; and we misspoke about 6045: Zimbabwe, not Zambia.

WRMI: IBC Radio has suspended its broadcasts, so that includes WORLD OF RADIO; perhaps the webcast will continue?

MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR may not present an exhaustive schedule of holiday specials as we did the last few years, but we are accumulating links to holiday programming pages at public radio stations; click on Advance.

IBC Radio via WRMI: WOR failed to appear at scheduled 1900 UT Sat Nov 29 on 15725, webcast. This was an error, we are told, and furthermore, IBC Radio/WRMI will resume WOR on Sundays immediately from Nov. 30, but at a different time, 1600 UT. Did not appear then either, but music instead. Maybe next week?

WORLD OF RADIO 1209 (low) available from 0410 UT November 26: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2045 UT Nov 26; high version not yet available, but low file was available some 20 hours earlier than usual due to upcoming UPS holiday.

WINB: WOR 1206 started 4 minutes late after 0230 UT Thu Nov 6 on 9320; was interrupted for a musical interlude, probably because of unexpected necessity to download high version in two parts, but played to completion about 0307.

RFPI has been shut down! --- 11/05/2003 - 6:30 PM CST (Costa Rican time) - The Copy Exchange
- "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this
includes the freedom to hold opinion without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless
of frontiers" states the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. But this apparently does not apply to the United Nations'
mandated
University for Peace, which silenced the voice of Radio for Peace
international today at approximately 4:00 PM CST, by cutting power to
the
station.
James Latham, in a cell phone conversation with this reporter just
minutes
ago, stated that the RFPI staff not be leaving the station any time
soon.
Tomorrow an attempt would be made to move station equipment out of the
station and into a secure location - an action that could be blocked by
the
armed University for Peace guard and a large quantity of barbed wire.
In an earlier conversation Latham stated that if food were prevented
from
being brought into the station, the staff would be forced into going on
a
hunger strike. RFPI volunteers have been supplying food by bringing it
with
them from Ciudad Colon and crawling through a hole in the fence that
surrounds UPaz land.
RFPI could possibly be live streaming from it San Jose office in two
weeks.
Check http://copyexchange.com/_wsn/page3.html for RFPI news updates
-- Franklin Seiberling, The Copy Exchange, Iowa City

WORLD OF RADIO 1206 (high) available from 0052 UT November 6 in two approximately equal parts. Part I: STREAM - DOWNLOAD; Part II: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0610 UT Nov. 7 when streaming was also enabled.

WORLD OF RADIO 1206 (low) available from 0043 UT November 6: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0610 UT Nov. 7 when streaming was also enabled.

RFPI: RFPI WILL BE FORCED TO RELOCATE ...
10/30/29 - The Copy Exchange - The University for Peace (UPaz) gave
little
ground to Radio for Peace International in negotiation that took place
over
the last few months over compensation to RFPI for their $200,000
facilities
and for the cost of moving the station. UPaz would only set up an
escrow
account containing a tiny percentage of what is owed the station -
money
that RFPI cannot access. RFPI walked away from the talks empty handed,
forced to relocate but penniless to do so.
UPaz officials stated that RFPI must vacate their facilities by October
31st or face legal action, though it is unclear what form that action
might
take, since Costa Rican law does not apply to international land, such
as
UPaz property.
Regardless, RFPI does plan to move and is determined to keep their
dream
alive. Land outside San Jose has been donated to RFPI, a deed being
drawn
up to transfer ownership to the station. From a newly established
office in
San Jose, capable of containing the studios, RFPI will be able to live
stream their programming over the Internet during the three to six
month
period required to set up the transmitter and tower at the new
location.
Once the transmitter is established RFPI begin broadcasts again using a
studio-to-transmitter link from the San Jose studio.
UPaz reportedly is planning to make use of the present RFPI facilities,
for
which they offered nothing in monetary consideration, for their own
purposes (Franklin Seiberling, IA, UT Oct 30, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

WORLD OF RADIO 1205 (high) available from 0045 UT October 30: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0325 UT Oct 30. NOTE: last 25 seconds (propagation) are missing from the high version due to encoding problems.

WORLD OF RADIO 1205 (low) available from 2255 UT October 29: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0325 UT Oct 30.

RFPI: John Carver notifies us that a live call-in is underway from 0330 UT Wed Oct 29 on 7445, with the latest about RFPI`s struggle against the University for Peace. It looks as if they will have to vacate, but they are trying to get the UFP to pay for the relocation expenses.

DX LISTENING DIGEST AUGUST HTML ARCHIVE is finally available UT Oct. 10. This and the previous 2003 monthly DXLD HTML archive files (some of which are still incomplete) are now stored at W4UVH.net where the audio files also reside. Older links will no longer work, but updated links are on the WOR OPENING PAGE.

Altho WOR 1202 was ready in time for WINB, for some reason they ran old #1199, UT Thu Oct 9 at 0130 on 9320.

WORLD OF RADIO 1202 (high) available from 0411 UT October 9: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 1903 UT Oct 9.

WORLD OF RADIO 1202 (low) available from 2343 UT October 8: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 1903 UT Oct 9.

RFPI: back on 15115 Sept. 20, this time on USB, with HCJB as BFO until it closed at 1330. Henceforth plans to run 15115-USB only between 1800 and 0800 UT. WOR 1199 heard Sat 2340. This must be in preparation for the Open House on Sunday.

RADIO FREE CASCADIA INTERNATIONAL: political pirate has been making quite a showing on 15045, in case you haven`t noticed; see MEXICO [non] in last few DXLDs; supposed to continue only thru Sept. 14. At 2133 UT Sept. 13 announced that their original webpage and e-mail had been disabled by enemies. Check out the new site for further info: http://www.tree-sit.org/~y2wtko/rfci.htm.

WORLD OF RADIO EXTRA 44 (high version only) available from 0405 UT September 13: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY.

OUR CURRENT AUDIO: those files stored at k4cc.net have been moved to w4uvh.net activated by 0400 UT Sept. 13; the links on OUR CURRENT AUDIO have been changed, but older references such as in previous DXLDs and below on this page, will no longer work. The new site has greater capacity, so older audio files will no longer be deleted in order to accomodate new ones. Many thanks to Dave White for providing this service!!

DX LISTENING DIGEST 3-151 has been posted August 21. The subject line on the notification for this issue to newsgroups erroneously read 3-155, but the links contained were correct.

WORLD OF RADIO 1196 (high) available from 1515 UT August 21: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2203 UT August 21. There will be no low version this week.

WORLD OF RADIO 1196: recording problems delay completion of this edition; most of it aired on WBCQ Wed Aug 20 at 2200. We hope to have it complete sometime on Aug 21, with audio uploaded on our site, maybe in time for WWCR at 2030, but surely for subsequent broadcast on that and other stations the following weekend.

WORLD OF RADIO on WJIE: We missed checking Sunday 1630 the last few
weeks to confirm whether WJIE has still been running #1179 from April,
but on Aug 16 we found that the schedule had been updated at
http://www.wjiesw.com/schedule.htm to show only one time for WOR, Sat
0930 UT. However, occasional checks at various times of both
frequencies, 7490 and 13595, the past week have failed to confirm WJIE
is even on the air, or modulating if there is a carrier. We have told
them there is no point in continuing until WJIE can become serious
about SW.

WORLD OF RADIO WATCH: On WRMI: 1195 confirmed Sat Aug 16 at 1804 on
15725; on WINB: confirmed 0031+ UT Sun Aug 17 on 12160; CONTINENT OF
MEDIA on RFPI was about half an hour early at 0300 UT Sun instead of
0330.

WORLD OF RADIO WATCH: IBC Radio via WRMI 15725 (and webcast) after
1800 UT Sun Aug 10 had a show about ghost-chasing, rather than WOR,
tho WOR still appears on the website schedule at 1800 Sat and Sun.

Changes to WOR and COM on SIUE Web Radio ---
Glenn, For this week only (the week of 8/11); World of Radio will be
aired in place of Continent of Media on Wednesday (8/13) at 1830 UT.
WOR will not be airing on Monday (8/11) at its usual time because the
local engineer for the show is still under the weather. The regular
schedule will resume for one more week on August 18 on SIUE's Web
Radio.
Beginning August 25, 2003 (this is tentative and subject to change
before the semester begins at SIUE on the aforementioned date), World
Of Radio will air on Monday at 10:00 p.m. local time (UT Tuesday 0300)
and Friday at 10:30 p.m. local time (UT Saturday 0330), while
Continent of Media will air on Friday at 10:00 p.m. local time (UT
Saturday 0300). The UT will be one hour later following the return to
Standard Time in October. During the break between the Fall Semester
2003 and Spring Semester 2004, WOR and COM will air in rotation on Web
Radio's automation setup. We'll also have a new General Manager on
board; Rick Crossin will take over for Lisa Herman, who graduated this
weekend. 73 and good DX, (E.B. Stevenson, PSA Director, SIUE Web
Radio, Aug 11)

WORLD OF RADIO 1194 in mp3: Hello, This email message is a
notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the
Files area of the NetworkRadioInternational group.
File : /Glenn Hauser-World of radio 1194.mp3
Description : World of radio 16K
You can access this file at the URL
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NetworkRadioInternational/files/Glenn%20Hauser-World%20of%20radio%201194.mp3
[where the URL broke, there was a \ between r and l of World; pasting
it back together, it won`t play either way for me --- ``this may not
be an MPEG file``. You have to join the group first. DXing with Cumbre
also supposedly there --- gh]
To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit
http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/NetworkRadioInternational
Regards, (Tim Gaynor, Qsld., ShortWaveRadio yahoogroup Aug 9 via DXLD)

WORLD OF RADIO WATCH: WRMI: classical music fill again heard at 1823 check Sat Aug 2 on 15725. Sunday Aug 3 at 1801 check, 15725 inaudible, but IBC Radio webcast had WOR already in progress, and ending at 1803, so must have started about 1734! But after IBC commercials, WOR 1193 restarted at 1807. I guess the previous run replaced Dan Roberts` SW Report. WINB: confirmed OK UT Sun (not Sat as I once showed) 0030+ on 12160. RFPI: WOR missing both at 0530 and 0600 UT Sun on 7445. 15115 nor any other 19m frequency has returned since the Thu-Fri test. WJIE: carrier detectable on 13595, in the 1630 semihour Sun Aug 3, but no modulation. If there were it would no doubt have been WOR 1179 from 14 weeks ago.

RFPI has been missing from 15039, but it`s not off the air! New frequency of 15115 is being tried, as noted by Tim Hendel and gh July 31 after 1600. There may be some co- and adjacent-channel interference, as is almost inevitable with an in-band channel; reports no doubt wanted.

WORLD OF RADIO 1193 (high) available from 2341 UT July 30: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0030 UT August 1.

WORLD OF RADIO 1193 (low) available from 2335 UT July 30: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0030 UT August 1.

RFPI: 15039 was off the air as of 1330 UT July 30, but only due to a parts failure; however, may wait to resume pending a new frequency above 15.1 MHz; 7445 still audible, fading out here around 1330, and in around 2330; propagation disturbance today also.

WBCQ: DC Radio has been canceled, so WOR repeat may move back to its original time, UT Mon 0415 instead of 0445 on 7415. Yet to be confirmed.

WORLD OF RADIO WATCH. Sunday`s anomalies: on IBC Radio via WRMI 15725, noted ending around 1840, so must have started late around 1811. On RFPI 15039 noted ending around 2009, so must have started around 1940 instead of 1830; and repeated until about 0210, so 0140 UT Mon, and heard again around 1355. RFPI remains on the air as usual and there is much more about the situation there in DXLD 3-134.

RFPI: On Monday, July 21, 2003 a University for Peace representative delivered an eviction notice to Radio For Peace International (RFPI), which has been operating since 1987 by mutual agreement on the University campus in El Rodeo, Costa Rica. The Radio station’s access gate was locked with chains and patrolled by armed guards employed by the University for Peace. In addition, the radio station was advised to vacate its facilities in two weeks... More! and even more in DXLD 3-132, 3-133.

WJIE: Once again this week, WJIE aired the 2+ month-old WOR 1179, Sun June 29 at 1630 on 13595.

WINB: Once again this week, WINB failed to air WOR at the new scheduled time of 0030 UT Sun June 29 on 12160, tho it did manage to broadcast DX Partyline before it and AWR Wavescan after it, unlike last week. You might wonder, why do I put up with this? 1) There are still lots of other opportunities to hear WOR on other stations; 2) I would not if I had incurred additional trouble or expense in shipping them tapes; but WINB is supposed to download WOR from our website. Similar thinking applies to the even less reliable WJIE. Later: apparently WINB ran WOR June 28 at the former time of Sat 1730 instead of 2430, but this should be corrected July 5.

WINB has a hard time getting things organized and carried out, but at least they are trying. The new Saturday evening DX-block, scheduled UT Sun June 22 at 0000-0130 for DX Partyline, WOR and AWR Wavescan in that order, went like this: frequency change from 13570 was not completed until after 0002. No DXPL, but gospel music fill. I forced myself to keep listening, and did hear at 0016 a couple of brief false-starts of the DX Partyline opening, but nothing more from that show, back to music. At 0029 instead of 0100, AWR Wavescan 442, the latest edition, aired in its entirety. 0057 music fill. Kept listening, and finally at 0106 instead of 0030, WOR 1187 started but was cut off at 0129 long before it was over. One can only imagine what could have caused such a three-way mixup.

WORLD OF RADIO 1187 (high) available from 2345 UT June 18: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0050 UT June 20.

WORLD OF RADIO 1187 (low) available from 2335 UT June 18: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0050 UT June 20. Note: the low version is about one semiminute longer than the high version, with one additional item near the end, as also heard on WBCQ.

WORLD OF RADIO 1186 (high) available from 2340 UT June 11: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0420 UT June 13.

WORLD OF RADIO 1186 (low) available from 2335 UT June 11: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 0420 UT June 13. Note: the low version is about one minute longer than the high version, with two additional items near the end, as also heard on WBCQ.

WORLD OF RADIO on Studio X, Italy, 1584 et al.: Sunday broadcast half an hour earlier at 1900 UT.

WORLD OF RADIO: missing, we hope temporarily, from WWCR UT Sat June 7 at 0600 on 5070; confirmed at new time Sat 1730 on WINB 13570; still old #1179 on WJIE Sun 1630 on 13595. RFPI 15039 missing in early June, so back to nighttime airings only on 7445.

WORLD OF RADIO 1185 (high) available from 2348 UT June 4: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2330 UT June 5.

WORLD OF RADIO 1185 (low) available from 2336 UT June 4: STREAM - DOWNLOAD - SUMMARY available from 2330 UT June 5. Note: the low version is about one minute longer than the high version, with two additional items near the end, as also heard on WBCQ.

MAY DXLD HTML ARCHIVE has been updated through 3-090, eating up a few hours on May 24 when we might have been holidaying or producing a long-overdue Continent of Media... February, March and April are still incomplete. Now you have hotlinks for all the URLs, numerous (but not enough) correxions and cross-references which were not in the individual original txt issues, and a single file for convenience of searching all May issues.

WORLD OF RADIO on WINB: thanks to an invitation from Hans Johnson, WINB will start carrying WOR June 7, Saturdays at 1730 UT on 13570, 242 degrees azimuth, 50 kW.

There appears to be a problem at k4cc.net. If, and only if, you are unable to stream or download in a reasonable amount of time WOR 1183 from the link below, the low version only has also been placed at STREAM - DOWNLOAD.

WJIE: latest posted program schedule eliminates the M-F 0730 airing of WOR, and the Sun 0200, both of which times we never confirmed anyway; three times remain on schedule. Try both 7490 and 13595 at: Sat 0930, Sun 1030, 1630. Confirmed at 1625.

RFPI: After an absence of almost two months, RFPI`s 15039.1 is heard again at 1300 UT May 2, with Democracy Now. A reminder of our daytime airtimes on the new schedule: WOR: Fri 1930, Sat 1730, Sun 1830, Tue 1900; COM Sat 2130, Thu 2000. The second and third repeats, 12 and 18 hours later, may be delayed up to a sesquihour for logistical reasons; we need confirmation of times actually heard. The revival of 15039.1 may result in transmission time changes also for 7445, which has been running 24 hours.

WJIE: Another week goes by, and WOR still doesn`t appear at the promised time of 0200 UT Sun on 7490 (and maybe 13595), April 27. Nor could we hear it in a brief check in the Sun 1030 hour when DVR is co-channel. We would appreciate monitoring at 0730 and the other scheduled times to determine if any airings are taking place.

WJIE: did get the new WOR 1177 on air at 1200 UT Friday April 11, but that`s the end of such a timing: (gh) Starting Monday, April 14th, we are going to be having some major changes to the schedule, and it does impact your broadcast. World of Radio can be heard the following times: M-F 3:30 AM Eastern, 0730 GMT; Sat 5:30 AM Eastern, 0930 GMT; 10:00 PM Eastern, 0200 GMT (Sun); Sun 6:30 AM Eastern, 1030 GMT; 12:30 PM Eastern, 1630 GMT, says Doc Burkhart, also that 13595 is on the air testing in parallel.

With so much going on, we couldn`t bear to skip WOR this week, so a new show was produced March 26 and first aired on WBCQ at 2300 on 7415 and 17495-CUSB as usual; and should air on WWCR as usual Thu 2130 on 15825; however it will not be available online until sometime on Thursday (we hope). Here`s the SUMMARY already.

Computer problems caused temporary posting of DXLD 3-047, 3-048 and 3-049 at our other site, at Angelfire.com. These were also uploaded here around 0100 UT March 26. Calendar was also not updated during this period, but is again updated as of 0300 UT March 26.

WOR 1174: did not appear yet Fri Mar 21 at 1300 on WJIE 7490; maybe by Monday? Pre-empted along with COM on RFPI UT Sat, due to Pacifica anti-war coverage; this may well be the case also UT Sun, Mon -- and Wed? Well, at least there`s WWCR, but you`d better get it UT Sun 0330 on 5070 if still needed.... [Later]: Ha! pre-empted then too! Looks like we may be running 1174 for two weeks while things get straightened out. Should be OK on WBCQ UT Mon 0545 on 7415.

NOTE: we are a few weeks behind in converting DXLD issues to html. In view of current events March 19, we are skipping ahead to bring you the latest issue 3-045, and may continue to do so even though previous issues are not yet available. The March file is HERE.

WBCQ: we apologize for the upcuts too often heard on the WBCQ broadcasts of WOR; it`s usually our fault, or a misjudgement/fakeout of cuing, since this feed is done `live` in real time, often only a few minutes after the edition`s recording has been completed, and lots of things have to mesh properly, as we are playing the master on VHS tape into the computer to make one of the real versions, and on into a dual cassette deck to make copies for some stations, and from there on thru a mixer untimately into the phonepatch to WBCQ. Since WBCQ tapes this feed, whatever happens there also happens on the UT Monday 0545 playback.

DX LISTENING DIGEST 3-029 has been posted February 21. Note: in the original distribution, accents did not display properly, fortunately affecting only a few items in this issue. Please refer to the posted copy where this has been corrected.

WORLD OF RADIO ON MEDIASOUND: New internet station is testing; WOR scheduled Saturdays 2100 UT, thanks to Alan Maylin, Station Manager. Have you heard MEDIASOUND yet? http://www.mediasound.net

JANUARY 2003 DXLD HTML FILE is now complete Feb. 2, issues 3-001 thru 3-017. Tho a large file, 1.72 MB, we hope it will be more manageable, e.g. searching in it, than the quarterly files of last year three times as large. As always, a number of mistakes missed previously have been fixed, some cross-references added even to future issues, and the URLs are now hotlinks.

DX LISTENING DIGEST TO-DATE HTML FILE, fourth quarter 2002, as of 1845 UT January 11, is now complete through 2-205, Dec 31. These quarterly files are so huge that they are cumbersome for us to search, and we expect to construct monthly html files in 2003, instead. Comments?

WORLD OF RADIO 1163, high version available from 0000 UT Thu Jan 2: DOWNLOAD - STREAM - SUMMARY available from 0000 UT Jan 2.

2002: THE SHORTWAVE YEAR IN REVIEW, a portion of which appears on the 1400 and 2200 UT VOA Communications World specials Jan. 1, is available here in its entirety (18.5 minutes): STREAM - DOWNLOAD - TEXT

OKLAHOMA BROADCASTING NEWS #8 has finally been updated Dec. 27 with material from DXLD since late September. At the end of 2002 this file will be closed, renamed oklahoma8.html and a 2003 file started as oklahoma.html